Famous Vehicle Sightings In The Wild...

[formulanone]

Couple of race trailers, NBC Sports trailers, not much else.

[Road Hog]

Jackson Browne's tour bus stopped at the Burger King I worked at in college.

[DaBigE]

How could I forget the Google SV car....   the damned thing was parked at my (old) apartment complex for the better-part of a month!

[hbelkins]

Alex Ovechkin. He's been nicknamed "Alexander the Great" and "the Great 8" (he wears sweater number 8).

Oh. Hockey. Which is Not A Thing in my world. 

CC Slater (Otto Yamamoto) has a saying having to do with hockey that I won't repeat here.

[empirestate]

I've seen Marine One heading into Boston from the south/west a couple of times.  I don't know if it was carrying someone important...

I do! If you saw Marine One, it was carrying the President. :-)

[allniter89]

The Goodyear blimp flew past my home a few months ago. It was very very loud. I heard it coming 7 minutes before it flew by. Didnt get a picture tho, Mrs Allniter misplaced my camera

[oscar]

Presidential motorcades.

Seen them several times, been in two of them.

Comes with the territory if you work in downtown D.C.  I also saw several vice-presidential motorcades, in the Bush/Cheney years followed by an ambulance.

When Queen Elizabeth visited Jamestown a few years ago, my dad (who worked on an I-64 project on the way there) saw her land at Richmond and take off towards the Historical Triangle.

When I visited Ottawa in 1997, I knew it would be Canada Day, but I didn't know the Queen would be there too (those days, she was attending Canada Day ceremonies for major anniversaries every five years, in that case Canada's 130th).  I was in the back of a huge crowd watching her speak on Parliament Hill.  Thereafter, I saw her limo at least once, on the streets of Ottawa taking her to other Canada Day events.  I, and thousands of others, got the royal slow wave.

Back in the U.S., in late August/early September 2012 I saw a Romney campaign bus at a truck stop along I-80 in Nevada (probably the Flying J in Winnemucca).  I think the candidate wasn't there, the bus was just being shuttled between events.

[Pete from Boston]

I've seen Marine One heading into Boston from the south/west a couple of times.  I don't know if it was carrying someone important...

I do! If you saw Marine One, it was carrying the President. :-)

I mean I don't know if P/VP was on board at the time.  I know that technically it is not called "Marine One" unless the president is aboard, but they don't hang a sign out or anything to indicate the occupant.

[US81]

An Oscar Meyer Weinermobile was stationed in north Arlington (TX) for several months during 1989 or so. Often saw it parked in a particular apartment complex parking lot, also saw it on the road several times. Have also seen a Google Street view car several times, once as a pedestrian. (Periodically I look up that intersection but so far, I personally am still not visible on Street view. Yet.)

Oh, and I've marched in parades near various art cars and "Tow-mater"

[Pete from Boston]

I am in GSV driving behind the camera car.  It took about a year to show up, though.

[froggie]

Meaghan's seen the OM Weinermobile in the town next to ours, which was a curious place for them to go since it's a town with no paved roads and barely 200 residents.

About the only "famous" vehicle I've bumped across is the Google Streetview car.  I found it on MN 95.  And he found me (in the Chevy Cruze).

Not counting presidential motorcades/flyovers from my 4 years in DC...

[formulanone]

The Goodyear blimp flew past my home a few months ago. It was very very loud. I heard it coming 7 minutes before it flew by. Didnt get a picture tho, Mrs Allniter misplaced my camera

I used to work in Pompano Beach, Florida; so it was a very common sight during the winter and spring months, to the point where I didn't even think of that! I even saw it about an hour before it crashed back in 2005.

[theline]

Living and working just a few miles from the Notre Dame campus for over 30 years, I've seen the Goodyear blimp so many times it's hardly worth looking up. The Navy jet flyovers are a regular occurrence too. I've also seen Air Force One delivering several presidents for commencement addresses and campaign speeches.

I was surprised exiting my office one day to see the Weinermobile parked right in front. Since I work at a newspaper, I assume it was there for some hoped-for publicity.

I happened to be in Ft. Wayne on business the day after the assassination attempt of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. I was near Colosseum Blvd. when a motorcade bearing Sen. Ted Kennedy zoomed past. He was in town to visit Jordan's bedside.

[1995hoo]

Discussing aircraft reminds me of the time a Stealth Bomber flew overhead as I was playing golf at the course nearest my house (Greendale, a Fairfax County course). I hadn't bothered to bring a camera, naturally, since I'd played there hundreds of times and didn't expect to see anything interesting. Dumb–had I thought about it, I'd have remembered that was the weekend of the Andrews AFB air show such that there was a chance of seeing something different. The aircraft flew over the course three or four times during my round.

[bing101]

I seen some unmarked Google Maps Cars and marked Bing Cars but they may be contracted to to other GPS Services the unmarked Google Maps Car.

[Zzonkmiles]

I saw John McCain's campaign bus traveling south on I-77 in South Carolina during the 2000 presidential primaries. I was heading north, so I couldn't get a good picture.

[Billy F 1988]

A few years ago, I went and viewed the #16 National Guard car at the South Reserve Street Subway in Missoula. About a year later, DeWalt dispatched their demo truck with the demo car of the #17 DeWalt Car of Tomorrow and I went over to Murdoch's (used to be called Quality Supply) to view that one, too. Pretty cool sight to see the evolution of the Roush Fenway cars from the fourth to the fifth generation stock cars.

[BamaZeus]

I've seen several NASCAR haulers and the presidential limo.  I've also seen a few replica General Lees going down the interstate.

[roadman]

Saw one of the Bing camera cars this morning as it came into the commuter rail lot at Melrose Highlands (MA).  Didn't note the make, but it was a small hatchback about the size of a Ford Fiesta.  Made a loop around the lot, went into an adjacent lot for an elderly housing building, and then went back out onto a side street.  Unlike the GSV vehicles, it appears that the Bing cars use multiple stationary cameras instead of a single "spinning" one.  And, given the height of the camera support, I could imagine places where the "BingMobile" wouldn't fit.

[roadman]

Presidential motorcades.

Seen them several times, been in two of them.

I've seen two presidental motorcades.  First was Jimmy Carter's motorcade heading though Wyoma Square when he visited Lynn (MA) in 1977.  Second was Ronald Reagan's motorcade coming out of the Sumner Tunnel when he visited Boston in 1981.

Spent much time visiting my sister when she lived in Washington DC in the early 1980s, but somehow never saw a motorcade once during those stays.

[agentsteel53]

on my first major road trip in 2003, I saw on I-80 in Nebraska, an otherwise anonymous YELLOW branded 18-wheeler... with a police escort ahead and behind, and a helicopter overhead.  no idea what was in there, but I thought it may not have been all that unusual in that part of the world.  have not seen it since.

in 2005, a rocket stage was being very carefully moved down US-395 not all that far from Edwards Air Force Base.  it took up both lanes, but with good coordination and a few passing zones, traffic was able to move in both directions.

I am quite sure that the black Mercedes SL (55 or 63; I forget) with license plate BAZINGA belongs to Jim Parsons (plays Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory).  at least, the driver looked remarkably like him.  this was on I-15 on a Sunday afternoon; I think he was coming back from Vegas.

as for presidents - there was an Obama motorcade in San Francisco one morning when I was there.  I have no idea if I actually spotted the president's vehicle; I was just feeling rather annoyed at the additions to San Francisco's already byzantine road closure and turn restriction laws.

[PHLBOS]

In 1996, while driving home from work along I-95 south at the Girard Point Bridge, I saw Air Force One come in for a landing at nearby PHL.  The approach path to Runways 9R-27L & 9L-27R parallel the bridge.  Needless to say, the next two exits (Enterprise Ave. & Bartram Ave.) right after the brdige were blocked by police vehicles when the 747 came in.

Near where I work, a meeting of most if not all the governors came to Philly for some gatehring several years ago.  The streets surrounding Independence Hall looked like a Cadillac/Chevy dealership with all the black Suburbans/Tahoes & Escalades parked all around.

[rickmastfan67]

I once saw Bob Dole's presidential campaign motorcade leaving JAX in 1996 along FL-102.

[Pete from Boston]

I saw the easternmost Honda in the lower 48 once, then got in it and drove it home.

[empirestate]

I see the NYC subway being driven down my street every now and then.